Although this paragraph itself is not full of creativity, the makeup is also ordinary punk and gothic, but I still feel very interesting when I hear Close to you swinging in such a lazy passivity. Interesting soundtrack, interesting appearance.
In the outline of this story, there are probably a few key words:
Helena and mother. circus. Arguing and hospitalization.
Helena apologized to her mother, because the family business of the circus had to survive hard, and she always opposed her mother. Like any adolescent child, she wanted the outside world and freedom. She uses painting to soothe herself. Those paintings are all black and white, sharp lines, imaginary weird animals, these paintings are superimposed on the wall of her bedroom, which looks capricious and crazy.
The mother was hospitalized and was about to undergo surgery. Helena was uneasy, thinking that the quarrel caused her mother's illness, and she was afraid of losing her mother.
A total of fifteen minutes before and after the film is in reality, and the rest is the reproduction of dreams. Reappeared to such a realistic and lovely situation.
After being insulted, the books with personality flew back to the library fiercely, and the books in the library fluttered their wings excitedly, waiting to be caught by customers with net bags, and then left the library, otherwise they would only be frustrated and withered. destiny. This is my favorite piece of imagination.
The mask, this allusion has a long history. Compared with another horror movie (ViDOCQ, 2002, Chinese translation: Decoding the Face), which is also called Mirror+Mask, it is really a warm and lovely work. The mirror mask here is not used to kill people and suck souls, but a window that allows Helena to travel between reality and dreams, that is, the light world and the dark world. So I always thought that this movie should be about the balance of black and white, good and evil in people's hearts.
Relatives hurt each other and then hug each other; friends betray you and then help you; even if you forget yourself, and then rob yourself of the right to live in reality with another self. . . . Such things are not such a great theme as saving the world. Small enough to be a little bit arrogant attempt in everyone's life and childhood.
The medium is a sly and decadent avatar, whether it is architecture, monsters, or all cats with human masks. . . In fact, it is the root of this movie. Some stories, as well as superficial or solid themes that have been deduced, can actually take a back seat.
This movie is like saying: the form is greater than the content, it can indeed make the movie look good. This demonstrates the imagination and tangram-like skills of the main creators. This is the basis for making everything from scratch and even beautiful. The so-called plot, rationale, and preaching of the story are obviously a rib in this story. Yes, it is thin, definitely not a Matrix-like brainstorming. So in my opinion, this is a simple dream story. It is a dream of a little girl who misses her mother and also wants to figure out which way she should go.
__________ Supplements about MCKEAN
When MCKEAN moves-
If you are familiar with MCKEAN's paintings, I believe you will agree that his things are difficult to move. Starting from his Batman comic ARKHAW ASYLUM, the techniques he used have surpassed the cognition of his peers: superb color drafting techniques combined with realistic images and abstract atmosphere; the use of physical collages combined with complex photography techniques. When you think he is a pure illustrator, he has been involved in various new media in the 90s. Not only has he directed MTV, he has entered the millennium and has become the world's top digital artist! The problem is that Hong Kong fans have too few opportunities to get in touch with his works. . . . Like this MIRROMASK set, the author saw a few stills about a year ago, and it didn't feel much at the time. The reason is that just looking at the stills, I really can't imagine how such a complicated picture can be "depressed". After watching the DVD, my conclusion is'so depressed, so depressed'! With only 4 million US dollars, 17 animators, and his hard work for 18 months, he basically spent a few minutes sculpting the MV to create an amazing video totaling 104 minutes. On the one hand, the whole film is cool to the explosion of outdoor WIDE ANGLE photography, and there are also unreal images that can't distinguish between CG and real scene, 2D and 3D. To use an analogy, it's like someone arranges Hayao Miyazaki's animation into a live-action version, but the finished product makes you suspect that all the pictures are drawn. Just like his graphic works, MCKEAN's film debut also uses many retro styles: but in the past he used classical photography as a reference, this time it is almost the light and shadow of early silent films. With countless surreal monsters and objects, the effect can only be described by one word-MAGIC
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